U+C662 "왢" Hangul Syllable Waenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C662 "왢" Hangul Syllable Waenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable), the medial vowel ㅙ (which represents the diphthong "wae"), and the final consonant ㄶ (a double consonant representing the sound "nh"). This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary but exists as part of the Unicode standard's comprehensive encoding of all possible Hangul syllables, which was designed to support the full morphological structure of the Korean writing system. The character is classified under the "Hangul Syllables" block in Unicode, where each syllable is assigned its own unique code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+C662
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Waenh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "왜" U+C65C Hangul Syllable Wae
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 왢
HTML Hex Encoding 왢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x99 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC662
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C662
C/C++/Java Escape \uc662

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter